Karl Rove => Tea Party candidate is nuts!

ROVE: I think she's right on the issues but I think the voters of Delaware are not going to want to know just if you're right on the issues but if you have the character and record and background that gives me that you're the right person for the job.

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ANCHOR: Do you think she's not electable?

ROVE: Well, look, that's gonna be proven. What I said last night is she has to answer these troubling questions. It's not enough, she said 'Look, I'm puzzled as to why the IRS put a lien on me.' Well you don't have an IRS lien put on for you taxes that you failed to pay in 2005 five years later unless you haven't paid your taxes.

She said it was a technical mistake by the bank why her house was the subject of a foreclosure lawsuit that she lost. And her house was put up for sale at a sheriff's sale. And just before the sheriff's sale, she sold the house, on which she owed $90,000 on, she sold if to (sic) $135,000 to her boyfriend who was also her campaign advisor. I mean, people are going to want to these...

ROVE: Well, look I'm not certain of this because look, there were conservatives on both sides of this race in Delaware. One thing that Christine O'Donnell is now going to have to answer in the general election that she didn't have to answer in the primary is her own checkered background.

You made my case. You made out a list of the things that Mike Castle had done right -- excuse me, done wrong. You didn't make out a list of the things that Christine O'Donnell had done right. I've met her. I got to tell you, I wasn't frankly impressed as her abilities as a candidate.

And again, these serious questions about how does she make her living? Why did she mislead voters about her college education? How come it took nearly two decades to pay her college bills so she could get her college degree? How did she make a living? Why did she sue a well-known and well- thougth of conservative think tank?

HANNITY: This is probably one of the few times we're going to disagree here because I met her. I've interviewed her a lot over the years. I found her quite impressive.

And more importantly, she is a solid conservative. I think what people are saying in this primary, in this race and I think all across the country in these other races that we are mentioning here is that you know what, if you vote for cap and tax and have an opponent that says they wouldn't they have an choice, they have an option.

So I think it was very substantive, very based on issues, very based on the voting record of one and the promised voting record of another.

ROVE: Again, you are making my case. This was about Mike Castle's bad votes. It does conservatives little good to support candidates who at the end of the day while they may be conservative in their public statements do not event the characteristics of rectitude, truthfulness and sincerity and character that the voters are looking for.

We'll see how she can answer these questions. She sure as heck didn't answer them thus far in the campaign and not in the general election that she will be asked about.

HANNITY: I interviewed her and I felt her explanations were more plausible --

ROVE: Did you ask her about the people who were following her home to her headquarters and how she has checked each night in the bushes? Did you asked her -- I mean, there were a lot of nutty things she has been saying that just simply don't add up to --

HANNITY: Its sounds like you don't support her, but I will tell you, I think --

ROVE: I'm for the Republican, but I got to tell you, we were looking at eight to nine seats in the Senate. We are now looking at seven to eight in my opinion. This is not a race we're going to be able to win.

This whole situation shows how bad the GOP at this point. Also now the GOP is throwing Boehner under the bus for him saying he will support Obama's new tax cuts. I really don't see how the the GOP can pick a leader when themselves cant decide if the want to be Middle right or Super far right.

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